From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eval-after-load as a macro (and eval-next-after-load) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:25:13 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84y92mslqe.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <200304042030.h34KUEQL008262@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200304062105.h36L55Jn019873@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049707786 18560 80.91.224.249 (7 Apr 2003 09:29:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 11:29:44 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192Swi-0004p9-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:29:44 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192T09-0006TC-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:33:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192Svn-0002T9-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 05:28:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192Sur-0001qT-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 05:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192SuJ-0000zY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 05:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192SuC-0000rN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 05:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192Stm-0004X9-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:26:42 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192Stl-0004Wx-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:26:41 +0200 Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sm8b0KPS2smNbIuCDIHaDmeuxsk= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12946 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12946 "Stefan Monnier" writes: >> It seems ok to me. > > Actually, my proposal is completely unworkable because it breaks execution > of old .elc files where the byte-code needs eval-after-load to be > a function :-( So what's left is a good name for the new macro. Then the docstring for eval-after-load could point to the new macro, and old code wouldn't change behavior at all :-) -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.